Today, one of my students corrected the problem I had solved on the board, explaining that you do multiplication before subtraction. I teach the second grade. FML
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A failed costume, stolen candy and a very real scare: Halloween, the one night when fear is allowed.
Today, I was teaching a class when a student pointed out that I'd used the wrong "your/you're" while writing on the board. FML
Today, I was babysitting, and a little girl asked for help with her homework. I cheerfully began an explanation, only to freeze mid-sentence. I could not for the life of me remember how to do long-division. I'm about to graduate from Cornell University, and her little brother had to correct me. FML
Today, the kids I teach informed me that I had spelled my name incorrectly on the board. I looked at it and assured them that I had spelled it correctly. I'm 22 and a graduate student, they're six and mentally challenged. Guess who was right? FML
Today, I had to find simple words to explain to the idiot I was tutoring that "1/4" is not of a greater value than "1/3" just because the denominator is bigger. FML
Today, disappointed with my results on a mathematics test, I went over it and realized my teacher had added up the marks incorrectly, leaving me with 17% less than I earned. The person who's supposed to be teaching me math can't even perform basic arithmetic. FML
Today, I was helping my kid with homework after work. I tried to Google “third grade long division explained simply.” Autocomplete filled in “because I don’t understand it either,” which I read out loud without thinking. My kid stared at me and said, “So… who’s teaching who?” FML
Today, I told my class I was giving them 60 seconds to do a problem. A girl replied furiously "At least give us one minute!!" I teach a high school honors math class. FML
Today, my math TA showed the class how one of her "dumb" students answered a test question. Everyone laughed as she wrote out the students answer, including myself, until I looked down at my answer sheet and saw that I submitted an identical answer. FML
Today, while grading my kindergarteners' spelling tests, one kid spelled all the words wrong, including his name. FML
Today, I was playing a math game with a 4th grade boy (I'm a college graduate). I cheated during the entire game, and still lost 7 of the 9 rounds we played. FML
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cookies61889 15
teacher became the student
duztx 0
Way to go...
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duztx 0
Way to go...
Badshah29 6
maybe u shud let the kid teach
sns_fml 0
in soviet Russia student teach you
Bobissmall 13
Reminds me of those facebook groups... 1+1+1+1+1+1 x 0 = ? And so many people put 0 ...
ReptarRAWR23 0
Wonder how readings goin.
zukinihudini 0
BEDMAS
almariee 2
pemdas
garrettsgirl 0
what did u go to college for then if the student is smarter than you?
TookaWooka666 0
OPs got a masters in ****** stupid teacher who gets corrected by her second grade students.
forest1wolf 9
Yepp it's PEMDAS technacially BPEMDAS Brackets, parenthesis, exponents, multiplication/division, and addition/subtraction
TookaWooka666 0
Please Excuse My Dear Aunt Sally, damn that teacher needs to memorize that soon or OP could lose their job.
mooshibear140 4
Haha, it's order of operations. BEDMAS (Brackets Exponents Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction). I didn't learn that until grade 6, and yet a group of 8-year-olds know it so well that they are correcting the teacher?! Man, teaching in schools has certainly changed fast.
XXizzlerXX 0
it is 0
gabstahhh 8
62- the answer IS 0. Anything times 0 equals 0.
liquidfireKAN 0
Uhm ...no you idiot you do multiplication first even though at least 3 ppl have made a comment about beams you ignore it. 1+1+1+1+1+1x0= 1+1+1+1+1+(1x0)= 1+1+1+1+1+0= 1+1+1+1+1=5 to everyone else I know that there is a simpler way to do this but I'm just explaining it to the ones who don't understand math.
ienjoithinqs 0
what if the student apparently was a genius but was holding back his knowledge so he could stay with kids his age instead of ending up in highschool at the age of 12 and college at the age of 16.. 0.o
JohannMedina 0
Did you buy a fake bachelor's degree in teaching or something?
HelloNoora1 0
It's not the teachers fault. Nobody used Order of Operations unless told otherwise in Elementary.
iEatGuppies 0
"everybody has those days. everybody gets that way. everybody knows what what I'm talking bout everybody gets that way" -Hannah Montana (nobodys perfect?) don't ask how I know this^
wowthatsucks5 8
corrects op, the second grade teaches you**
wowthatsucks5 8
correction*
howicu 0
its 5
JB486 0
the answer is zero retard
Piratbox 0
Only if you read the equation from left to right like words from a book and forget to attend to order of operations, which happens to be the subject of this FML, *******. I love how you need to call someone else a retard, as well.
DiabolusIgnis 15
Put that in a calculator, see how it works out for you, you crayon-eating, special bugger.
cookies61889 15
teacher became the student
futtbuck101 1
please excuse my dear aunt sally
snade 0
everyone makes mistakes. atleest you know he's paying attention
srhsrhsrh 0
no it's a fml post because kids in 2nd grade get taught order or operations in about 5th-8th grade she said one 2nd grader corrected her so now her whole class is like WTF!??
unvmesucka 0
looks like the 2nd graders teach you
starrysky4 0
at least you teach your students well
extrasnipes 22
Sounds like they teach her
OcampoFTW 4
smart kid
whybother8 0
kids a genous!
fthku 13
#53, you're not that bright yourself.
luki13 0
Unless they were using the word provided by urban dictionary instead of the word provided by a real dictionary. This is the problem with urban dictionary, those of us that aren't hip seem like spelling Nazi's. In any case I think I've heard someone say that word as a joke before, although I think it's spelled geneous. Just to be on the safe side I am responding to #53.
tayybayybayyyy 4
71, the urban dictionary word is genious, and the definition is someone who is too stupid to spell genius.
FYLSLOWLY 0
you're*
marix54888 0
#3 I hate your picture he murdered many many people.
Keyganator 5
why I otta.
sourgirl101 29
Is that a lame joke from the movie "PeggySue got Married"? **I love Nicolas Cage!(:
sillyjb 9
kids say the darndest things! can you issue detention?
IloveyouJon 11
Why would he? All the student did was correct him.
pinkspaceboundro 0
I'm not the smartest cookie- but I'm thinkn the detention thing was a joke.
sillyjb 9
it was a joke.
CheeseTaco 0
A bad joke.
CocoaRox 0
I'm sorry but am I the only one disturbed by this guys picture??
Livinia 11
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Isn't multiplication a bit advanced for second grade?
Cairo_Sanchez 8
not if it's a private school which I'm guessing it is
sara_saturday 5
no.
sara_saturday 5
but the order of operations is kinda pushing it
NStarB 13
apparently not:)
Piratbox 0
Maybe Swiss kids are just really awesome. They made room in the curriculum for more math education after they stopped teaching them all how to use pikes 2 years ago.
AaronTkr 0
maybe theyr asians
Wazilla 0
I learned all about multiplaction the second grad including order of operartions. we didn't do exponents until 6 grade.
richarosky 0
well actualy in many part of south america and im guessing also in Europe kids learn math faster and more advanced than in the US. My cousin was learning multiplication in 2 grade while I learned it in 3 or 4 in the US.
cupcakeslayer 0
I learned it in 3rd. and 39(?) I agree order of operations is pushing it but I had a older sister who liked to play teacher and learned a few things early that way. maybe the kid is in a similar situation.
numbers878 8
only in china
tBo111 0
not in soviet Russia
ArielTheMermaid 17
I went to private school and we learned multiplication in 2nd grade
Lizzylibeth 2
not anymore....the world is advancing
FYLSLOWLY 0
wtf is multiplaction?
FYLSLOWLY 0
Sorry, responded to wrong comment!
NoWayLady 13
they normally teach the 5's 2's 10's that's what they normally teach but it changes from school to school
sarahrocrocrocks 5
i started in first! god u thnk were dumb or sumthin?!
stupid0wl 3
Switzerland teaching plans differ from state to state but most teach addition, substraction, multiplication and division between 0 and 100 in the second class.
Dominoes 0
I learned multiplication in first grade... :
iloveeyouu5 4
I learned it in 1st grade and I live in the US...
BuhxritNAYY 5
I guess that's why you're a horrible speller as well, 114.
lilfreckle7 7
no, now that schools are pushing kids to learn things sooner than they would normally. new curriculum, you know? but still, no 2nd grader should have to be doing multiplication, let alone the order of operations. I didn't learn about order of operations until 6th grade, and I'm only in 8th.
EvilDoll 7
don't try out for 'are you smarter than a 5th grader' or, y'know, go out by yourself. or answer the door for strangers.
RyanMacVey 17
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really? ... i never got teached the order until like 1st year in high school :/
IloveyouJon 11
looks like you never got taught a lot of things
RyanMacVey 17
im not stupid... honestly
zozohearts 0
I didn't get it until like 5th. Maybe things are more advanced where op is from.
ugliness 6
gayboii is from Glasgow, in Scotland we get taught differently from America :) nice to notice another scot on FML
RyanMacVey 17
thanks (: nice to meet you... im ryan
geeksaresexy 18
When did you get taught order of operations? I don't know what age a 2nd grade kid is because countries all have different age-to-grade systems. We were taught it year 7 or 8 (11-12 years old 1st or 2nd year of high school)
BB_ava 0
16, you just *taught* me that you are indeed stupid.
MissBunnyWillEat 11
111, you just *taught* me that you are a bitch. I'm also aware you are going to reply back to this. You are probably first going to correct my grammar, then, you will probably use words that you think make you appear smarter than you are. Oh, god. I must prepare the tissues for the tears that are sure to fall from my eyes when you diss me. boo-hoo. sniffle sniffle.
Jake_2013 0
Bitch ^
k8izgr8_fml 0
142 just went into total twat-mode
dj_tricky 0
Taught*
BB_ava 0
I see someone's on PMS :O
not_kidding 0
gayboii needs to stop blowing sharpies and read a book for once.
borntoperform 14
Let's stop being mean to gaiiboy, it's getting old.
kacielikewhoa 0
it's funny because nobody was talking to #142 to begin with. :)
Mattster5401 1
Geez ,somone got a little mad and p.s. Mind your own beeswax
cherrybitches 6
everybody makes mistakes don't feel bad for it
2cacrawf 0
agreed easy mistake at least the principal wasn't there to see it
geeksaresexy 18
Depends how old the kid is, we weren't taught order of operations until we were about 11. I don't know how old a 2nd grader would be as we don't have the same grade system here. Before we were taught BODMAS it was always 'go left to right' as they were only teaching us how to add and multiply etc
GoingLesbian 0
Whao... BEDMAS wasn't till 8th grade over here... Watch that one. His parents might take over the world.
aliceisbored 11
*pemdas... ?
passief 0
same thing ^
rein 8
It stands for the order in which to solve a problem. so its: Bracket, Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction.
LLLEEERRROOOYYY 0
^ what about exponents?
ugliness 6
I learned bodmas or bomdas but in Scotland we learn it at 11/12 (highschool)
dizzaymizlizzay 11
Looks like other countries outside the US use a different acronym.
RyanMacVey 17
yeah... im scottish too (: i thought i was the only one that learnt that in highschool
smiley706802 0
don't forget exponents
schmelia 10
In Australia, we learn BOMDAS in about grade 4 or 5.
bailey80 3
lol me either
J1hill33 12
what was the B?
RyanMacVey 17
(brackets)
jonathan6773 5
84, in the US, 'P' stands for parentheses and other countries, 'B' stands for brackets. Same thing, just different wording.
Vincanety 0
I learnt pedmas (I go to a French school) but I learnt it like second grade
geeksaresexy 18
Brackets, Orders, Division or Multiplication, Addition or Subtraction. We, in the UK, use Brackets instead of Parentheses and Orders instead of Exponents.
volley4eva1698 0
where I go to school we did pedmas, please excuse my dear aunt sally, parentheses, exponents, division, multiplication, addition, then subtraction...in 2nd grade
dawsum1 3
I learned pemdas in like 4th grade
Mystery_Machete 2
#108, Not to sound like a closeminded American, but... I find it a little redundant and unclear to have the word 'order' as a step in the 'order of operations.'
geeksaresexy 18
Some people were taught 'Of' like 'powers of' but a lot of previous pupils at my school were somehow confused by that and they thought we'd be confused by exponents too. If I have to think about it now I use BEDMAS because to me exponents makes more sense to me!
geusbjqj 2
I learned it in French: PEDMAS=Paranthèses, Exponents (or something like that), Division, Multiplication, Addition, Subtraction
Aburlucy 0
Its PEDMAS
geeksaresexy 18
#143 BEDMAS, BIDMAS, BODMAS, BERDMAS, PERDMAS, PEMDAS, and BPODMAS are all used it's all the same thing..
showdaddy46 0
pemdas. whomever put pedmas then please excuse my dear aunt Sally you are retarded because that is pemdas if u make it an acronym. you can't save em all
Mattster5401 1
Its pemdas but you might have been taught differently no offense